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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1096089" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>In a young herd bull, we are looking for the proper phenotype, an early maturing individual, good temperament, masculinity shown at an early age, quality of the sire and dam, tenderness genes, weaning and birth weights, calving ease in the dam, high fertility, and high libido are just a few of the attributes that we look for. It is hard to write down which trait is most important because even without one of the traits above, you will have problems. I put tenderness genes in the list because they really improve the quality of our grass-fed beef. </p><p>I have attached a photo of a 6 month old bull from our 2012 calf crop who fit these requirements. He was following the open Guernsey cow that we had. </p><p><img src="http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/503/medium/a6f1ffaa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1096089, member: 20754"] In a young herd bull, we are looking for the proper phenotype, an early maturing individual, good temperament, masculinity shown at an early age, quality of the sire and dam, tenderness genes, weaning and birth weights, calving ease in the dam, high fertility, and high libido are just a few of the attributes that we look for. It is hard to write down which trait is most important because even without one of the traits above, you will have problems. I put tenderness genes in the list because they really improve the quality of our grass-fed beef. I have attached a photo of a 6 month old bull from our 2012 calf crop who fit these requirements. He was following the open Guernsey cow that we had. [img]http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/503/medium/a6f1ffaa.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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